JSSE books/tutorial links

Can anyone point to good books or online tutorials on JSSE?

We have code that does HttpURLConnection, but before doing it,

it sets some System.setProperties javax.net.ssl.Keystore, storepassword etc,

I would like to know more about why do we do things this way.

1) why these steps are necessary?

2) What does it change in the underlying communication with the external URL?

For example, for one vendor we imported their public key to our cacerts file.

The hhtpurlconnection code worked fine, I want to know how does the cacerts public key gets picked up and used in the ssl handshake.

I need a newbie book on the JSSE.

Any links/books will be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Rumpa Giri

[754 byte] By [rgiria] at [2007-10-2 21:59:10]